In Noah Toyonga’s research, they explore the strange space of structures with morphable geometry — systems where geometric properties are modulated as a function of space and time, which leads to unintuitive, though often delightful, behavior. As they have traversed these topics, one constant has been physical “toy models,” which they construct out of paper and plastic to understand the unintuitive behavior they are studying. Using the research from these toy models and rooted in play, Toyonga’s capstone project, i imagine first what i am wearing, explores the interaction between body, clothing, and object: in the broadest terms, what does it mean to “wear” something, and why do we do it? The collection of objects are hard and soft. They might be worn, or might be touched, or they might hang in the space between us. They also imagine bodies which don’t exist, but could.
New location: Outside the ground floor of the LISE building, between the concrete pillars